The Human Brain is not Compatible with Recursive Methods.
Just got through a session programming some recursive xml parsing and component display functions. Finally got it going right and that felt great. But in the process I found myself staring into space and starting to drool several times. I gained some real empathy for the Flash Player when it gets stuck in one of those 256 level of recursion loops. The brain just locks up. I thought this summed it up pretty well:
